Yesterdays post about a new Rapidshare Search engine seemed to have caused that much load on the reviewed website that it was taken offline. One of the interesting features of this new search engine was that it was able to check the validity of links. Everyone who ever used Rapidshare before knows that links come [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

You find two Rapidshare Search sites on the Internet. The first is using a custom Google search engine effectively making use of what Google has already indexed which also means that many links will be outdated and not working because of the time difference between indexation and the user search. The second type of websites [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Rapidshare is still one of the most popular file hosting solutions on the Internet although their latest changes to the system have angered many long time users of the service. The reduction of the daily download quota for Rapidshare premium users and the speed decrease for free users are the two main points that have [...]

Categories: The Web

The creator of RapidWareX send me an email about his new Rapidshare Downloading Tool for premium users that he developed and published at Google Code. The first public beta was released just two days ago and it already received some acknowledgment from various websites. The difference between this Rapidshare tool and many others is that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The file hoster Rapidshare seems to have seen a huge increase in premium users, those users that pay for the service to receive a faster transfer rate and other comfort functions, since they introduced the new system that saw a removal of the captchas but a introduction of a speed limit for guest users. Premium [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Rapidshare English is a test post that tries to find out how this post will rank in the search engines. It does contain information about Rapidshare though, feel free to add your comments. As you all know Rapidshare is displaying the correct language for the user who is navigating to the website. I’m not sure [...]

Categories: The Web

Rapidshare finally decided to get rid of the Captcha images that were displayed to non-registered users who tried to download a file from the file hoster. Many users had problems to identify the correct characters that were shown in the Captcha to proceed with the file download. The reason for the change of heart is [...]

Categories: The Web

Rapidshare have implemented a new captcha for some time that asks the user to enter four out of x letters that have a cat (others have a similar looking picture of a dog with a smaller head) in the background. This new captcha is confusing to users and many have decided that it is not [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

If you are a regular on Rapidshare you probably use a download manager to download files from Rapidshare that ensure good speeds and make it possible to download files from Rapidshare without having to use their website interface at all. Nothing beats adding lots of links to the download manager instead of having to sit at your pc all day waiting for the time limits to expire.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox